Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-10-07
Pension Points.

The annual report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions for 1887, just is
sued, will afford an interesting study
to the curious, outside of it's recon-
mendation for the betterment of the
service and its details of operations
for the year From the great mass
of figures presented great many
curious things may be learned con.
cerning the way in which Uncle
Sans bounty is distributed. There
are eighteen pension agencies, and
the sums distributed by these aggre-
gated S74,S15, 4S5 S5. S3.6SS,27S 90
of this having passed through the
hands of the agent in this city The
total number of pensioners of all
classes on the rolls June, 30.'1SS7,
was 406, ,0O7, gain of 40,224 over
tie rel for the preceding year. There
were dropped from the pension list
during the year l7.G77 persons, by
death, re marriage, legal limitation,
etc, 2,278 of these being men and
women whose claims were based on
service in the war of 1912. At the
Pittsburg Agency2O, ,62Opersons draw
their pensions. The number of
claims for pensions fled during the
year was 2,465, of which SO, 1874
were allowed. The smallest number
Of claims for pensions allowed in any
wear since 1862 was 4, In 1875 and
1878, and the largest number 69, AGA,
in 1880. Since 1871 the amount of
pensions growing out of the war of
1912 has been 1859, 99l 60.
The proportion of pensioners to the
humber of men furnished for the Un-
ion army by each State during the
war of 1912 and the rebellion is in
teresting. Thus, Alabama furnished
1856 men, and has 9T5 on the pen
sion list; Arkansas, with $3.50 men
in the army, has 2.5S7 pensioners;
California, Is, 725 men and 8, $50 PEN
sioners; Colorado, 1908 men and
1903 pensioners; Connecticut, 55,S64
men and a,5l9 pensioners; Delaware,
1924 men and sS4 pensioners;
Georgia did not contribute single
man to the Union service, but $50 of
her citizens draw pensions; Florida.
1,290 men and 1872 pensioners; Hi
nois, 259,O92 men and 29,547 pen
sipners; Indiana, 196.363 men and
90, pensionsrsi Iowa, T6,242 men
and 1879 pensioners; Kansas, 80,
l49 men and l7,4Sl pensioners, or
more than 81 per cent. of the entire
number in the service; Kentucky, 75-
100 men and 10, 452 pensioners; LOU
isiana, 1924 men and 869 pensioners;
Maine, 70, 107 men and l4,012 pen.
sioners; Maryland, 46, 63S men aud
4,178 pensioners; Massachusetts,
146, 73O men and 1871 pensioners;
Michigan, s7,364 men and 1903
pensioners; Minnesota, $4,000 men
and 1914 pensioners; Mississippi,
545 men and 64S pensioners; Mis-
souri,, 100, Ill men and 16,lS9 pen
sioners; Nebraska, 3. l57 men and
672 pensioners; Nevada, l,0S0 men
and lOl pensioners; New Hampshire,
93, s3t men and 6,a09 pensioners;
New Jersey, 1854 men and 9.459
pensioners; New York, 448,S5O men
and 42.O13 pensioners; North Caro-
lima, 3,l56 men and 1926 pensioners;
ohio, ala, ls0 men and a9,sDG pen
sioners; Oregon, 1910 men and L.
033 pensioners; Pennsylvania, $751;
936 men and 41,O16 pensioners;
Rhode Island, 1926 men and l,S4l
pensioners: South Carolina, no men
furnished, but 40v pensioners, ten-
nessee, 3l,092 men and 6,736 pen
eioners; Texas, 1865 men and 2,2S0
pensioners; Vermont, 33.2S8 men and
G,32G nsioners; Virginia, no Union
soldiers but a.s6a pensioners; West
Virginia, 32,O6S men and 1922 pen
sioners; Wisconsin, 91,327 men and
l3 ,379 pensioners; District of Colum-
bia, l6, ,354 men and 3,597 pension
era. The entire ngrher of men fur
nished to the Union army by all the
States and Territories was 2,772, ,408,
and the entire number of pensioners
to-day is 4O6,007. From the great
variation ia the percentage Of pe,HH-
sions to soldiers furnished among the
several States, one is led to infer that
some troops were more exposed to
dangers of all sorts than others.
New York City, With its immense
population, has only $50 pensioners
while Philadelphia has 1871 and
Allegheny county s,asO. Hamilton
county, O.. the seat of Cincinnati, is
credited with only 2,l0l drawers OF
government bounty, while Mont
gomery, an interior county has 3 ,040,
Suffolk county, Mass, which inclEdes
Boston, has S,248 pensioners, while
Middlesex county has 3, 337.
If the Ohio idea of pensioning every
man who served in the late war
should be carried out, it would great
ly simplify the preparation Of such
statistical articles as the present
Pittsburg Telegraph.